Posted on 11/07/2023 8:13:30 AM PST by fireman15
ZTE Nubia company, part owned by the CCP
I want a phone that doesn’t spy on me.
True that. I don’t have a “gaming PC” per se in that I don’t have advanced graphics processing. But everything else about my laptop is “gamer” in speed, particularly for when I bought it 3 years ago (2.8GHz quad CPU, 32GB RAM at 3300 mHz clock speed, 1 TB SSD). It’s great for running a small MS SQL Server DB instance for my C# apps for downloading ETF and mutual fund prices for a little swing trading (more a hobby than actual wealth building, I make only slightly higher return than buy and hold in mutual funds) and analyzing telemetry from downloads from my solar inverters.
After a long hiatus from gaming PCs I decided I wanted back in last year.
I custom configed a machine from ibuypower.com with an i9, 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD drive and a 5 GB Data Drive, a NVidia 3080...yeah, I went a little nuts...
The thing is...I wanted a machine that just works. I had gotten spoiled by my years of Mac. I gotta say that while Windows 11 does have it’s issues, it is stable. And my machine is fast. Nothing I throw at it even makes it hiccup.
By contrast, I have a Windows box at work that is an I5 with 16GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD Drive and a 2 GB Data Drive and built in video. It is a snooze fest. Quickbooks brings it to it’s knees.
As for our phones...my son strayed from the Apple plantation and went with a Samsung Galaxy because a friend at work raved about his. At first he wanted to show it off. That lasted about three months. Then the b!tching started. I am now getting updates on how many days he has until he qualifies to trade in his phone for an iPhone. He says the iPhones just work and his Android “doesn’t always”.
Not sure about the excitement about the 16g of RAM.
My phone came with 64gig of ram. I put in a 64gig SD card because I had it and didn’t want to spend the money on more.
I have my old laptop (12+ years old) for, “internet stuff” and my new laptop that never touches the net. Wifi always off. If I want something, I move it to my new one via external HD. Really, most everything is on the EHD. Just programs on the new one.
I of course started out with an assortment of “home computers from the early 1980s when 16 KBs of available RAM seemed pretty good and the 38 KBs usable in a Commodore 64 seemed great. Of course, the first IBM PC clone I put together had 512 KBs and that was astounding! I of course developed a habit early on of closing programs that were running in the background to maintain maximum performance. Although these days Windows actually does a pretty good job of keeping things sorted out even when you leave multiple programs running.
I mean no disrespect, but your post reminds me of an episode of the IT Crowd where Jen wants Roy to fix her laptop because she has too many programs running on it. This is a funny clip!
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